Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Archive for the ‘CCC’ category

 

CCC Welcomes Program Associate Catherine Gill!

February 23rd, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA / by Maddy Hunter

We are excited to welcome Catherine (Cat) Gill as a new Program Associate for the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee. In her role, she will assist CCC staff with administrative tasks and logistical matters, such as organizing and coordinating workshops and research efforts. Most recently, she worked as an office manager for Hanover Research organized employee events and office communications. “CCC eagerly welcomes Catherine (Cat) Gill as a new Program Associate. Her organizational experience, including communications and logistics, will help amplify the efforts of CCC leader and volunteers to further our goals of catalyzing high-impact computing research within the community.” – Dan Lopresti, CCC Vice Chair Originally from […]

CCC Welcomes New Program Associate Haley Griffin

February 17th, 2022 / in Announcements, CCC / by Maddy Hunter

The CCC is thrilled to welcome Haley Griffin to the team! The Computing Research Association recently hired Haley as a Program Associate for the CCC subcommittee. In this role, she will support the CCC mission through facilitating workshops, completing administrative tasks, and assisting with communications deliverables. “CCC is delighted to have Haley Griffin join us as a Program Associate. Her energy, her writing skills, and her work experience in nonprofit organizations will be assets to CCC in its mission to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research.” -Liz Bradley, CCC Chair Previously she worked for AmeriCorps as a Literacy Coordinator where she helped students […]

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins – NSF Distinguished Lecture Series: Semantic Robot Programming and the Irresistible Tastiness of Seed Corn

February 14th, 2022 / in CCC, NSF, robotics / by Maddy Hunter

Chad Jenkins, CCC Council Member, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Director of the Robotics Institute at the University of Michigan will be featured as a part of the National Science Foundation’s Distinguished Lecture Series on March 3rd from 11am-12:30pm EDT.  Jenkins earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at Alma College (1996), M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (1998), and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (2003). He previously served on the faculty of Brown University in Computer Science (2004-15). His research addresses problems in interactive robotics and human-robot interaction, primarily focused on mobile manipulation, robot perception, and robot learning from […]

Mona Singh: Cracking the Code for Cancer

February 10th, 2022 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy Hunter

Mona Singh, CCC Council Member and Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University was featured on the Princeton University website for her work in combining biology and computer science to combat cancer. In high school, Singh had been interested in matters of biology and medicine but her passions belonged to math and computer science. Eventually, she joined a biophysics lab, where she applied the computer science skills she’d learned to automate data collection for the lab.  “I think that experience planted the seeds for using computer science in molecular biology,” she said. “I really loved the methods of computer science and thinking about […]

Announcing Call for Blue Sky Papers Track at HyperText 2022

February 9th, 2022 / in Announcements, Blue Sky, call for papers, CCC / by Maddy Hunter

The 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media will be held in Barcelona, Spain June 28 – July 1, 2022. The conference focuses on high quality research on hypertext theory, systems and applications. Research concerns all aspects of hypertext ranging from social media, semantic web, dynamic and computed hypertext and hypermedia as well as narrative systems and applications. ACM’s HT Conference 2022 is pleased to partner with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to initiate a new Blue Sky paper track that emphasizes innovative, visionary, and high-impact contributions. This track solicits papers relevant to Hypertext and Social Media content that go beyond the usual research paper to present new visions that stimulate the community to pursue innovative […]

Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security Orientation Recap

February 3rd, 2022 / in CCC, Security / by Maddy Hunter

On January 13th, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held an orientation webinar as an introduction for a CCC visioning workshop on Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security to be held in the summer of 2022 (exact date and location TBD). Hosted by workshop organizers Simha Sethumadhavan (Columbia University) and Tim Sherwood (University of California Santa Barbara), the orientation consisted of pre-recorded presentations and a Q&A with the speakers. The slide deck, pre-recorded presentation video, recording of the Q&A session and a transcript of the Q&A are linked and posted on the workshop webpage. The orientation outlined the goals of the workshop and expanded on what the organizers are looking for […]